Sentences with phrase «human chain»

But his ideas were not popular with the parents and educators who demonstrated against them by forming human chains outside dozens of city classrooms.

Some sat in the streets, blocking traffic and forming human chains.

Protesters in Human Chain to Stop Turner Building Closure Belfast Telegraph; January 6, 2014; MacDERMOTT, Eamonn; 700 + words... Turner Prize in Derry — David Shrigley, Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye Pounds 25,000 Amount handed over to surprise Turner Prize winner Laure Prouvost 40,000 Number of visitors to the Turner...

Activists had offered to form human chains around buildings to protect officials, and some of the region's 200,000 civil servants have already said they will not accept orders from Madrid.

Form human chain across Atlantic Avenue (Aug. 5):

There have also been other such antics such as human ladders (when a player kneels and another player kneels on top of them and so on and so on until they are a strange human chain of kneeling clones leading up into the sky).

Join us to form a Puppy Mill Awareness Human Chain at the entrance of the Twelve Oaks Mall on September 27 from 4 - 5:30.

The latest climate protest at the site of the planned Kingsnorth power station aimed to form a «giant human chain», or Mili - Band (geddit?)

Dr. Hansen joined 12,000 other concerned citizens at the White House yesterday, to form a massive human chain around the president's house.

One of the largest human chains was formed at PS 10 in Park Slope, where hundreds of parents, teachers and students circled their building, many wearing red T - shirts that read «Passion > Politics, #We are 10.»

At 8 a.m., women activists and survivors of sexual assault form human chain outside of the Trump Tower demanding the GOP disavow the presidential nominee and his «racist attacks» on women, 725 5th Ave., Manhattan.

This morning's human chain also included Green Party activist Peter Looker, from Schenectady County.

I've been immersed in the world of fitness for over 15 years and received my professional training at the Gray Institute, where I focused on functional science, human chain biomechanics and manual therapy.

In the eyes of five - year - old Enzo, brotherhood is first and foremost a beautiful human chain between men or all children of Earth would held hands, towards a future where there is no more hunger, no more misery, where nobody would be cold or sick, and that all children have parents to call mom and dad.

Humans are the ones who bred a terrior & a bulldog, human chains dog, humans abuse dog, humans neglect dog, humans starve dog, out of fear, hunger, desparation, aggression occurs — wow go figure - and dog dies.

12,000 tar sands protesters wrapped themselves in a huge human chain around the White House.

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So is this case a spillover or part of a human - to - human chain of transmission?

Before and after school today, a number of advocacy groups — led largely by anti-testing advocates and later joined by the NYC teachers union — plan to join hands and form human chains around school buildings in what organizers say is a symbol of their displeasure with Cuomo's education reform proposals.

But although this protest numbered a slightly bigger 1,000 activists (they reckon), this is hardly the demonstration of popular uprising that Miliband wants it to be, and the «giant human chain» only extended a small way around the site.

The ENKA project was the first proposed coal power plant in Aliağa, 20 years after the massive human chain.

In the days before fire brigades, neighbours would fight fires by forming human chains.

The participants, most in their 20s but with a few greyhairs thrown in, sit down on the floor, each locking their legs and arms around the person in front, making a human chain arranged like a flat coil of rope.

A robot assigned to patrol the outside of a library would be swarmed with kids that would try to play with the robot, blocking its path and even forming a human chain surrounding it.

To fight the high - powered blasts, some children joined hands trying to keep their balance in a human chain.

In Oakland, California, at least four were arrested after creating a human chain to block a county building where demonstrators demanded that county law enforcement refuse to collaborate with federal immigration agents.

Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of self - discovery is at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian women form a human chain to take water from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).

Perhaps the most obvious of the upward avenues is the human chain of people talking to people: the man working at the bench talks to his foreman, the foreman to his superintendent, the superintendent to his boss; and, relayed from person to person, the information eventually reaches the top.

In Tahrir Square, Christians made a human chain around Muslims bending in prayer in Tahrir Square, and Muslims in turn made sure that Christians holding mass the following Sunday were safe.

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This unique and historic moment at the Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena in Tbilisi, Georgia, ahead of the all - Spanish showpiece between last season's UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League winners, featured a human chain comprising the players from both teams, the match officials, and some 1,000 children and accompanying adults from Georgia and neighbouring countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.

Children had to form a human chain to produce a ring to practice in.

Protests against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's harmful public education agenda peaked in New York City on March 12, when parents, their children and educators joined hands to form a human chain around their buildings before or after classes as if to protect them from the governor's proposals.

Plans were laid for a rally at Ditch beach — with drumming — and suggestions made of not only boycotting a new food truck there, but forming a human chain to prevent anyone other than Ms. Adams from getting in.

Protests against Cuomo's harmful public education agenda peaked in New York City on March 12, when parents, their children and educators joined hands to form a human chain around their buildings as if to protect them from the governor's proposals.

Occupy Albany members form a human chain around the last tent in Academy Park as DGS workers take down tents on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union archive)

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (second from left), her coordinator Dan Wiley, District Leader Jo Anne Simon (third from left), and other LICH advocates committed civil disobedience by creating a human chain across Atlantic Avenue, blocking traffic.

At noon, Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, her coordinator Dan Wiley, District Leader Jo Anne Simon, and five other LICH advocates committed civil disobedience by creating a human chain across Atlantic Avenue, blocking traffic.

The arrests occurred after the 13 unfurled banners that read, «Veterans Against Crestwood / Defending the Climate and Seneca Lake,» and formed a human chain at the entrance of the Crestwood Midstream property, blocking trucks from leaving and entering, according to We Are Seneca Lake, a group organizing the protest.

Carlene Pinto, the New York Immigration Coalition's immigration campaign manager, directs attendees to form a human chain in Foley Square.

Brooklyn City Councilman Carlos Menchaca, chairman of the Committee on Immigration, also joined attendees in putting together a human chain in front of the Federal Building.

After all the kits were prepared, the students formed a human chain in assembly line fashion, to move them into ambulances that delivered them to Albany Medical Center.

PLATTSBURGH — As the latest Republican - led plan to repeal «Obamacare» was plugged into life support Friday evening, protestors marched to Rep. Elise Stefanik's district office in downtown Plattsburgh, forming a human chain designed to resemble a backbone and urging the lawmaker to «grow a spine.»

Hawkins, who received over 180,000 votes for governor, joined a US armed forces veterans contingent in a human chain across the entrance to Crestwood Midstream on Route 14.

«Sometimes you can be lucky and work this out, as we did in a previous study, but this was possible because information of outbreaks that were known to be pure human - to - human chains was, unusually, available.

They formed a human chain around the Egyptian Museum on the first night of rioting in the vicinity, for example, and so prevented any serious damage or thefts.

Referring to the Tasmanian genocide, Parker says «The settlers believed so strongly that the Tasmanian natives were part animal that they formed a human chain across parts of the island to hunt down and kill all the native peoples.»

Either way, the sight of Iron Man desperately trying to catch plummeting crew members in a human chain is still pretty darn cool.